Hi guys.

I had the loose bolts in my tilt column, so I tore it down and tightened them up with Locktite and reassembled, but because the pin removal tool broke off in one of the pins, I had to remove the column. Now I'm trying to put the column back in and have run into a problem:

I get the column flush against the firewall on the inside, but it barely inserts into the steering shaft under the hood. I mean just barely inserts. What do I do?

 

the steering shaft extends. pull it onto the column at the joint near the booster. may take some effort.

 

Seems like I'm off a little more than an inch.

 

Also seems like a good time to upgrade to an Astro shaft.

 

Shaft was collapsed. Had to undo the rag joint and take it out to extend it again. It's all back together until my astro shaft gets here.